Again, BIRD is used on some very important places and therefore we are very conservative in accepting new patches. But I don't think we have NIH syndrome. We have been accepting foreign patches since beginning and Ondrej Zajicek is a good example. :-) He had sent me some new patches and later we started a regular cooperation and he became a key developer.
So basically you are saying that outsiders like my self aren't welcome because BIRD is so important to some IXPs that you don't want to take any chanches? I had hoped that the possible changes I would need to do could be fed back into BIRD so I didn't have to maintain them myslef forever.
Dear Jocke, no, I didn't say this. And again, all ideas are welcome. Thank you for yours. Ondrej
Jocke